OUR PROUD RECORD
"AT THE HEAD OF THE LIST"
TWO RHODES SCHOLARS
ANNUALLY.
As was announced in connection with the laßt election, the Dominion is henceforth to choose two Rhodes Scholars annually. This, decision was conveyed to the University of New 'Zealand in a cablegram frjrai London on 4th November last. •
In writing more fully to the Registrar on the matter, the secretary of< the Rhodes Trust states that "the trustees have long felt the urgency of the claim of New Zealand to an additional scholarship. As will be seen from the figures which will be published in the new edition of 'Oxford of To-day/ which is now in the press, New Zealand stands at the head of the record of Rhodes Scholars from tho Dominions.
"The trustees are confident that NewZealand will be able to send two scholars in future with the same intellectual, moral, and physical qualities as she has sent in the past, and that her scholars will continue to be what they have—a credit both to New Zealand and to the Empire/ |
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 24, 29 January 1926, Page 8
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176OUR PROUD RECORD Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 24, 29 January 1926, Page 8
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